Tuesday, 18 November 2025

 Tim McCURDY (Ovens Valley) (14:53): (1400) My question is to the Treasurer in the other place on behalf of Ella Besgrove. Ella has three businesses in the Harrietville township, and Ella applied for the $5000 grant for each of those businesses after the tragic circumstances that occurred in Porepunkah. Ella was unsuccessful in all three of those applications. I understand all the businesses in the township of Porepunkah itself were successful, but for any business on the fringe of Porepunkah evidence suggests only 14 per cent of those businesses have been successful. The information that I seek is for the Treasurer to revisit those applications and tell us how many of those businesses have failed in their applications.